Weekly Photo Challenge: Family (late edition!)

I had every intention of using this as the photo post for last week. After all, that was the timeframe for the challenge! With everything going on I didn’t even realize I forgot to post something until Saturday or Sunday. Oops! : )
A few words about the two pictures I chose – I have an unusually extended family that I’m close to and having/taking a photo to represent that isn’t something that would be easy for me to do. Since I AM close to my family I really wanted to showcase that in this challenge, but for various reasons it wasn’t possible. So I chose two other representations of it instead. Hope you enjoy!

My husband and dog, Cocoa, are at the core of what family means to me...

I loved the tufts of fluff at the tops of this young donkey's ears! He was so cute as he snuggled up to his mother.